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China’s advancements in space technology—and its nuclear triad—are proceeding with incredible speed, while Russia remains an unpredictable and dangerous threat, top officials from U.S. Strategic Command and Space Command told lawmakers Thursday.
NASA’s Psyche mission recently launched a spacecraft on a 2.2 billion-mile journey to study a giant metal-rich asteroid located at the far edge of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid, named 16 Psyche, could aid researchers to better understand unexplored building blocks of planetary formation.
Five months after the Space Force made history by launching a satellite just 27 hours after receiving orders, the mission is over and the spacecraft is out of orbit, the service announced this week.
The Space Force is making progress on its plan with the National Reconnaissance Office to enable space-based targeting and replace legacy Air Force aircraft, multiple senior leaders said at the AFA Warfare Symposium.
Marco Ciappelli and Sean Martin discuss AI, space technology, and cybersecurity with Debra Emmons, VP and CTO at Aerospace Corporation, emphasizing AI’s impact on space exploration and the importance of cybersecurity. Listen to the interview on Redefining Society Podcast.
Impulse Space, a startup focused on space transportation and exploration, announced Feb. 21 that retired Space Force general John “Jay” Raymond has joined its board of directors. Based in Redondo Beach, California, Impulse Space was founded in 2021 by Tom Mueller, a founding member of SpaceX who helped design the Merlin rocket engine that powers the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles.
Direct communications could ward off miscalculation as space militarizes faster than norms develop, officials say. The U.S. Space Force wants a hotline with China to prevent crises in space, as China’s growing number of anti-satellite weapons challenge U.S. dominance in the domain.
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) ERS-2 earth-observing satellite has spent nearly three decades in orbit, but was decommissioned in 2011 and moved into a position where it would eventually be pulled back to Earth for a fiery demise in the atmosphere.
The U.S. Space Force’s VICTUS NOX on-orbit mission has successfully concluded. From acquisition to on-orbit operations, the historic mission set a new standard for Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) by demonstrating an end-to-end capability to rapidly respond to adversary aggression.
